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What the British Are Doing Short Surveys of Important Activities in Maritime Centers of Island Empire WELCOME revival is reported in the shipbuilding industry. During the month of August Clyde shipbuilders launched 17 vessels of 37,695 tons as compared with 20 of 20309 tons in July and 28 of 40,465 tons in June. The total for the eight months consisted of 137 vessels of 203,175 tons, as compared with 100 of 203,149 tons in the corresponding period of last year, and 153 vessels of 389,731 tons in the (first eight months of 1925 and 142 vessels of 440,174 tons in the best correspond- ing period on record, that of 1920. The Northeast coast is busy, and at Barrow 11,000 men are being em- ployed by Vickers Ltd. which lately finished the 10,000 tons cruiser H. M. S. CUMBERLAND, which has sailed for Belfast preparatory to her trials. Two troopships are nearly completed and operations have been commenced on a new repair ship, a large depot SNM A Ea NULLA HILE the passenger excursion business on the Great Lakes has subsided due to the passing of the vacation season, most passenger lines are maintaining good seasonal services to and from most of the im- portant passenger points. The un- usually warm September weather was favorable to late season. passenger business. The Goodrich Transit Co., Chicago, has laid off several of its excursion boats for the season but still is maintaining daily service be- tween Chicago and Milwaukee, Muske- gon, South Haven, Grand Haven, Hol- land, Mich., and Benton Harbor. * * % | Elades shipments from the Michi- ‘gan fruit belt likely will fall short of expectations this season, it is stated by officials of the Great Lakes transportation companies serving that area. Last season fruit shipments were unusually heavy, and this sea- son’s movement, of course, will not attain the high mark of a year ago. Indications were that the volume of 42 ship for submarines and three large submarines for the navy. A new Orient liner is to be launched by Messrs. Vickers early in the autumn. * * * HE new contracts reported in August included two cargo steam- ers to be built by Barclay Curle & Co. Ltd., Whiteinch, for the Haun steamships Co. Ltd., Cardiff, and pas- senger and cargo steamers of 5000 tons gross to be built by William Denny & Brothers Ltd., Dumbarton, for P. Henderson & Co., Glasgow; and a cargo steamer of 6500 tons to be built by the Ayrshire Dockyard Co. Ltd., Irvine, for George Nisbet & Co., Glasgow. * * # HE shipbuilders have been con- sidering the bearing of the new rebate on their costs and they esti- mate that they will have to pay 5s a ton more for plates and £1 7s 6d fruit to be handled by Great Lakes vessels this year, however, would be fairly satisfactory. * * ** NNOUNCEMENT is made that Edward E. Taylor has been ap- pointed general manager of the Goodrich Transit Co., with entire man- agement of the operating, passenger and freight traffic departments. As a captain, Mr. Taylor was in active service with the Goodrich company for many years prior to becoming general superintendent of the former Graham & Morton line, with head- quarters at Chicago. Following the merger of the Graham & Morton line with the Goodrich line, he became as- sistant general manager of the latter. * * * AST savings through the _ build- ing of compensating works in the St. Clair and Niagara rivers are cited as possible by the American-Canadian joint engineering board in an amended report on its studies of the St. Law- rence waterway. The amended report MARINE REVIEW—October, 1927 per ton more for sections, than the cost delivered, of Continental ma- terial. They consider they will be largely compensated by the better de- liversies obtained from home makers, the fact that supplies can be de- livered in comparatively small in- stalments as required, and the abso- lute assurance of high quality. Bo * * HE largest ship ever ordered from Teesside builders has been placed with the Furness Shipbuild- ing Co. at Haverton Hill. It has overall length of approximately 540 feet, a beam of 70 feet and a molded depth of 38 feet $ inches. The ves- sel will carry about 16,090 tons dead weight. Twin sets of 6-cylindered diesel engines built by Krupps of Essen will give her a cruising speed of 12 knots. The Imperial Oil Co. of Toronto, Canada, have placed the order. The keel is soon to be laid. JAUIUUUEOMUNIUIUUUUIHSUUUAEL OTT 2 What's Doing Around The Lakes deals particularly with the losses to Lakes Michigan and Huron caused by the Chicago diversion and the enlarge- ment of the St. Clair river. It is stated in one of the reports that if compensating works were constructed which would care for the diversion at Chicago and losses caused by Canadian gravel dredging and other diversions, a saving of from $1,250,000 to $2,000,- 000 would be effected in the costs of deepening interlake channels to con- form with the proposed St. Lawrence waterway. Raising of the lake levels may save as much as $5,000,000 in the cost of harbor works likely to be undertaken by Canada and the United States, it is pointed out. * * * HE steamer L. E. BLock, named for the chairman of the board of the Inland Steel Co., Chicago, arrived at Indiana Harbor recently with a record cargo of limestone from Cal- cite, Mich., carrying 15,622 gross tons. Heretofore 12,000 gross tons has bee. considered a good cargo of stone.